Little and her staff want input about what services will be needed at the new library, which is scheduled to open in 2007. To get that information, they scheduled a two-hour Library Town Hall Meeting at St. Augustine Beach City Hall Thursday night.

But the meeting also served to tell county residents the tentative plan for the library.

St. Augustine architects Roxanne Horvath and Peter Rumple, both of CRG Architects Planners Inc., showed rough schematics of the two-story, five-sided building that will be an integral piece of Sea Grove Town Center, off State Road A1A at the west end of A Street.

They did the design of the county's Southeast Branch Library building.

Rumple said the building is a stand-alone structure and needed to be two-stories.

"Otherwise, it would be really tight," he said. "It will also be more visible and give us more flexibility."

The children's collection, service desk and small administrative area will be on the ground floor, he said. Upstairs would hold the adult and youth book collections, reference department and rest rooms.

Rumple said, "We'd like to get as much natural light in there as we can."

Mike Stauffer, project manager for McGarvey Residential Communities, said builder Jay McGarvey was happy to see the library would be part of the 116-acre Sea Grove development. That's why he was donating the land where the library sits and infrastructure worth a total of $500,000.

"Sea Grove is an extension of St. Augustine Beach," he said. "We see it as just another neighborhood.

By next week, all 284 single-family lots will be sold.

Also under construction are 10 condominium buildings, each with four units. Stauffer said he expects them fully occupied by next year.

"We'll have all residents in place by 2007," he said.

The county is paying for the library's construction $2.2 million it received from a revenue bond passed earlier this year. That pays for the building, computers and books, Little said.

She also announced Thursday that the 4,500 square-foot expansion of Bartram Trail Branch Library will begin Oct. 10.

Construction crews will work from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., but the library will remain open. A construction report will be posted just inside the entrances and updated daily.

The project is expected to last until May 2006. The library will be closed for 30 days near the end of the project to remove a temporary wall between the old and new sections of the library.

Stauffer said the Beach library will be a "vital piece" of the Town Center, which also will have a Rachel Thompson art gallery, coffee shop, ice cream parlor, Sun Trust bank, boutique and 10,000 square foot specialty grocery store.

Little and her staff want input about what services will be needed at the new library, which is scheduled to open in 2007. To get that information, they scheduled a two-hour Library Town Hall Meeting at St. Augustine Beach City Hall Thursday night.

But the meeting also served to tell county residents the tentative plan for the library.

St. Augustine architects Roxanne Horvath and Peter Rumple, both of CRG Architects Planners Inc., showed rough schematics of the two-story, five-sided building that will be an integral piece of Sea Grove Town Center, off State Road A1A at the west end of A Street.

They did the design of the county's Southeast Branch Library building.

Rumple said the building is a stand-alone structure and needed to be two-stories.

"Otherwise, it would be really tight," he said. "It will also be more visible and give us more flexibility."

The children's collection, service desk and small administrative area will be on the ground floor, he said. Upstairs would hold the adult and youth book collections, reference department and rest rooms.

Rumple said, "We'd like to get as much natural light in there as we can."

Mike Stauffer, project manager for McGarvey Residential Communities, said builder Jay McGarvey was happy to see the library would be part of the 116-acre Sea Grove development. That's why he was donating the land where the library sits and infrastructure worth a total of $500,000.

"Sea Grove is an extension of St. Augustine Beach," he said. "We see it as just another neighborhood.

By next week, all 284 single-family lots will be sold.

Also under construction are 10 condominium buildings, each with four units. Stauffer said he expects them fully occupied by next year.

"We'll have all residents in place by 2007," he said.

The county is paying for the library's construction $2.2 million it received from a revenue bond passed earlier this year. That pays for the building, computers and books, Little said.

She also announced Thursday that the 4,500 square-foot expansion of Bartram Trail Branch Library will begin Oct. 10.

Construction crews will work from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., but the library will remain open. A construction report will be posted just inside the entrances and updated daily.

The project is expected to last until May 2006. The library will be closed for 30 days near the end of the project to remove a temporary wall between the old and new sections of the library.

Stauffer said the Beach library will be a "vital piece" of the Town Center, which will also have a Rachel Thompson art gallery, coffee shop, ice cream parlor, Sun Trust bank, boutique and 10,000 square foot specialty grocery store.